Laboring to play : home entertainment and the spectacle of middle-class cultural life, 1850-1920 /
Dawson, Melanie,1967-
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-247) and index.
Labor, leisure, and the scope of ungenteel play -- Dramatic regression : the borrowed pleasures and privileges of youth -- The social body and the severed head : the cultural work of grotesque play -- Skills rewarded : women's lives transformed through entertainment -- Staging disaster : turn-of-the-century entertainment scenes and the failure of personal transformation -- Old games, new narratives, and the specter of a generational divide -- Imagined unity : entertainment's communal spectacles and shared histories.
Leisure
Middle class
Laboring to play.
Laboring to play.